175

John (Vischer), 175

Man and Geese (Labenwolf), 176

Pharisee, Levite (Rustici), 183

Bacchus (Jacopo Sansovino), 185

Perseus (Benvenuto Cellini), 191

Michael Angelo's Angel (Bologna), 197

Pieta (Michael Angelo), 199

Michael Angelo's David, 201

Giuliano de' Medici (Michael Angelo), 205

Statue of Moses (Michael Angelo), 207

Mercury (Giovanni da Bologna), 215

Relief by Berruguete (Valladolid), 217

Rape of Proserpine (Bernini), 225

Caryatide (Quellinus), 231

Heads of Dying Warriors (Schlueter), 232

The Great Elector (Schlueter), 233

The Three Graces (Canova), 241

Hebe (Canova), 246

Ariadne and the Panther (Dannecker), 249

Jason (Thorwaldsen), 256

Ganymede and the Eagle (Thorwaldsen), 260

The Three Graces (Thorwaldsen), 261

Statue of Queen Louise (Rauch), 270

Nymph (by Bosio), 273

SCULPTURE.

CHAPTER I.

ANCIENT SCULPTURE.

EGYPT.

No one can speak with exactness as to the time when sculpture was first
practised by the Egyptians; we only know that it was a very long time
ago. But we do know that in the time of the twelfth dynasty, which dates
from 2466 B.C., sculpture had reached a stage of excellence such as
could only have resulted from the experience of many years of training
and practice in this art.

In the Egyptian collection of the Louvre, at Paris, there is the
memorial stone of an old Egyptian sculptor which has an inscription that
reads as if he had w